my fluxbox needs a lot of resources. E.g. if I change the position of a window the uitilization of the CPU goes up to 100%. It feels like X11 is using the vesa driver, but /var/log/Xorg.0.log says X11 uses the radeon driver.
(im using the ATI Radeon HD 3200 chipset)

Do you know what's using the resources? I'm not sure what the process manager is for fluxbox, but in a terminal you could try the 'top' command._________________He who laughs last, laughs hardest
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I checked, if there is a kernel module called 'radeon' but there is none.(and also no radeonfb). I installed 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati', doesn't it build the kernel module automatically?

No. It's just an X driver. The DRM kernel module is inside Device drivers -> Graphics support -> Direct rendering manager -> ATI Radeon. The module (if you choose 'M') will be called "radeon", as said.

For this to be present you need /dev/agpart enabled in your kernel, probably.

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glxinfo says 'direct rendering: yes'

Your X log says the opposite though. There must be something odd about your setup, provided you did both checks with the same driver without changing anything._________________Gentoo Handbook | My website

sry, that my answer took so long, I had a lot to do last time.I'm using genkernel, so I had to read a bit about configuring the kernel.

I ran "/etc/src/linux make menuconfig" and "Direct Rendering Manager" has a <*>. "ATI Radeon display support" has a <M>. /dev/agpgart has also a <*> but, there is no agpgart in /dev.

Open menuconfig again, go inside /dev/agpart and make sure you have there at least the right driver for your chip. Some chips will work generically so don't worry if yours is not in the list. You can mark all of them as M if you are not sure. Beware this is the agp chip in your main board, and has nothing to do with your graphics chip. Then recompile and reinstall the kernel, and boot it.

Double check you are booting the right kernel after recompiling, otherwise, the info you get from menuconfig might be misleading. A copy of your live config for the current kernel can always be picked from /proc/config.gz if in doubt. You can also check the compilation date and hour with uname -a just to be sure.

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Inside of menuconfig->dev/agpgart Athlon64 is selected, thats right, im using a AMD Athlon X2 QL-65(there are only 2 other options and im pretty sure, that they are wrong). There is only one kernelimage in /boot/, with the right compiling date.

This part is from config.gz looks to me, leike agp support is actovated, but im not sure, because I didn't knew this file before:

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
#CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
#CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
#CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set

I will try to compile a self-configurated kernel, with the guide from the HP, besides the genkernel this weekend.

I'm sorry if I'm being presumptive, but as you said you usually use genkernel: have you been copying the newly compiled kernel into /boot/ and loading it in your bootloader? If not, what boot loader are you using and maybe we can help you make sure it's setup._________________He who laughs last, laughs hardest
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No, I didn't do that, but I don't think this is necessary, because 'uname -a' tells me the right compilation time, of the kernel, and there is nothing about that in the manual, and I didn't do it the first time, when I installed Gentoo.

Genkernel probably copied the file over for you. I believe compiling manually requires you to copy the file yourself, though, and to specify it in your bootloader (that's how I have to do it, at least, but there might be something automating it on your system that I'm not familiar with). If the compilation time in uname is accurate, though, then that would be evidence towards it having loaded properly. Just figured it was something to check._________________He who laughs last, laughs hardest
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Inside of menuconfig->dev/agpgart Athlon64 is selected, thats right, im using a AMD Athlon X2 QL-65(there are only 2 other options and im pretty sure, that they are wrong). There is only one kernelimage in /boot/, with the right compiling date.

This part is from config.gz looks to me, leike agp support is actovated, but im not sure, because I didn't knew this file before:

CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
#CONFIG_AGP_INTEL is not set
#CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
#CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set

I will try to compile a self-configurated kernel, with the guide from the HP, besides the genkernel this weekend.

You could try to enable these still, they won't harm, you can strip the kernel at a later stage.

Also, try to compile radeon as a module, and see if lsmod lists it as loaded. If not, try to modprobe radeon and check the dmesg output after that. There must be a reason why radeon doesn't get loaded._________________Gentoo Handbook | My website